expulse

[ ik-spuhls ]

verb (used with object)

, Obsolete.

, ex·pulsed, ex·puls·ing.

1. to expel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of expulse¹

< Latin expulsus; expulsion

Example Sentences

If not, he is threatening to expulse rebels and to throw a snap election by October 14.

From The Guardian

“And the second report? To expulse the Russian team from the Pyeongchang Games?”

From New York Times

If any of the males appeared to be having an “impure dream,” Barbosa said, everybody would be awakened, ordered to surround him and repeatedly shake him and shriek into his ears to “expulse the devils,” a Word of Faith practice called “blasting.”

From Seattle Times

Asad ibn Rabiya rose and said: 'Why cannot we expulse him from among us and banish him from our country?

From Project Gutenberg

For we're busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy with our bisness Wracked with duodenal ulcers Wives who from our homes expulse us Plagued with liquor, overfat and dizzi ness.

From Time Magazine Archive

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